The Darkening CloudsThe public’s mistrust of the media had been growing steadily through much of the 21st century. Whether directly or indirectly, this trend parallels the proliferation of social media globally.However, the recent spike of mistrust by the public in the media dove tails to that of conflicting and confusing
The bullet train progression of Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) with respect to its capabilities and swift applications into a wide-range of industries has enormous cost and productive benefits. Yet like all historical game-changing technologies, bad actors are quick to jump into the action and abuse it for nefarious purposes. Every department unknowingly
A confluence of global events is raising the geopolitical risk temperatures as rapidly as the meteorological ones without any respite in sight. Each risk component of chaos is not a destabilizing event unto itself, rather it can trigger a domino effect on related and unrelated components. Aggressively fanning the flames are
Mining &MercenariesLast weekend’s stunningmostly unopposed march on Moscow conducted by former caterer and convict YevgenyPrigozhin’s paramilitary Wagner Group (Wagner) consisted mostly of convictsshocked the Kremlin leadership to the core.Prior to the march, formany months Prigozhin hurled sharp and inciteful verbal comments againstseveral of the Russian military leadership notably Defense Minister
China’s aggressive attempt in becoming a global mediator of conflicts and peacemaker has nothing to do with a pacificist desire, rather real politik in achieving multiple tactical and strategic political and economic objectives concurrently. China’s basic objectives are to protect its interests and enhance their prestige as a key member of the